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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." Stephen Hawking.

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Quebecers bitchin’ again!

Dear Readers:

The old saying goes that history is written by the victors.

In Quebec, an addendum may be necessary that notes it is re-written by the victors of the most recent election.

That’s right kids, if you thought the bitchin’ French
had run out of ways to cause trouble, you’re mistaken ……………………., they
have more tricks up their sleeve!

(What it boils down to is that the French are just
plain “poor losers!” and second raters. I think it was Churchill, or
somebody else in the first half of the twentieth century, that was heard
to say: “The French are the greatest ‘second raters’ in the world!”)

By Matthew Coutts | Daily Brew
The Toronto Star reports that Quebec’s sovereigntist government is planning to introduce a high school curriculum that teaches history “through the lens of French Canada’s unique travails, including its struggle for nationhood.” (Read as: “The way we see it!” -Ed. )
The course will be tested in 90 classes across the province next
September. Among other topics, it will address the founding of New
France, the British conquest and the ongoing issue of sovereignty in
Quebec.
Some have expressed fear that the new curriculum is a plan to
strengthen the separatist cause, by getting to young Quebecers as they
are forming their opinions on the subject.
“The most reluctant speakers said that above all they worried about
an overly patriotic version of history, closer to propaganda than to the
discipline of history,” wrote the authors of a report on the
curriculum, according to the Star.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/quebec-wants-history-courses-rewritten-accentuate-french-struggle-205651217.html
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YES KIDS, IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL:

Residents of London were in a real mess this morning after a reported water main burst in the streets of Kennington, creating a feces-filled flood. Don’t you just love the smell of sewage in the morning?

Visual journalist and innovations specialist Lewis Whyld tweeted a series of photographs of what Londoners are calling the #poonami or #londonpoo. The hashtags of this dirty disaster went viral as Londoners are trying to deal with this “apoocalypse.”
The company responsible, Thames Water, posted on its website that repairs are underway. They apologized for any inconveniences the flood of sewage may have caused. Inconveniences?Ya, how about the inconvenience of poo all over your new shoes. Not to mention the foul smell.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/water-main-break-causes-poonami-streets-london-175253787.html
Folks, your seriously mistaken reporter started looking through the
London Free Press, and watching the local news, before I realized they
were talking about LONDON, ENGLAND!
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Hats off for Walter Williams, the poor son-of-a-bitch died yesterday!
Or did he?

The
coroner was called to Williams’ home in Lexington, Mississippi,a
community north of Jackson, where family members believed he had died.

Howard says Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9 p.m.

Early Thursday, workers at Porter and Sons Funeral Home were
preparing to embalm Williams when he started to kick in the body bag.

Family members were called and Williams was taken to a hospital.
Howard says he believes Williams’ pacemaker stopped working, then
started again.

(We’re keeping our eye on this one, folks!)
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By Chris MerrimanIT WAS MARCH 1989 or thereabouts that the World Wide Web was born.

The exact date of the creation of the World Wide Web is debatable,
but we’ll accept any excuse for a party, so The INQUIRER is taking the
date he is said to have written the paper to celebrate the first quarter
century of the World Wide Web.

Berners-Lee – now Sir Tim
– was initially looking for a way to use the internet, which had
already existed for some time, to improve communications within the CERN
complex in Switzerland where he was a computer scientist.
These days, we associate CERN with the Large Hadron Collider project,
but it’s worth remembering that the World Wide Web’s genesis was also
there.
At that time, of course, most of us were just getting to grips with
the ZX Spectrum +2A, or perhaps the Atari ST, little knowing that a
quiet revolution was taking place that would change computer users from
outsiders to the geeks that inherited the earth.
Nine years ago, we published an article celebrating 15 years of the web browser. No one could have imagined the impact that invention would have on the world.

Today, the web carries everything from the way we research essays or
navigate cities and how we communicate with friends to the way we find a
date. It has enveloped every aspect of our lives from the smallest
daily activities to the largest life events.

Lest we forget, without the World Wide Web, The INQUIRER most likely wouldn’t even exist.

So here’s to you, World Wide web. A great revolution in the history
of human communications has taken place during our lifetimes, and we
might well consider ourselves privileged to have seen it.